Alvarez is cheered on by Urdaneta City
URDANETA CITY–If embattled Cecile Guidote-Alvarez is running through a gauntlet since her selection as National Artist, together with the three other awardees, by Malacañang has been questioned by critics and other National Artists, she is floating on cloud Nine in this city.
The city council here passed a resolution last week expressing full support to Alvarez. The resolution, intended for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo who decided on the final list of awardees, says: “we saw what she has done in the field where she was chosen”.
“She is very much deserving of her award and it is already a common knowledge what she had done in theater during her younger years as a well-known stage actress, as founder of PETA (Philippine Educational Theater Association) and she has advocated the stage play that enhanced culture and arts in the country,” Mayor Amadeo Perez Jr. said.
He added that regardless of Guidote’s position as executive director of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), she should not be faulted for getting a nomination and being chosen by Arroyo.
The city credits Alvarez, in her current position in the NCCA, for her role in putting up the Father Andres Urdaneta Park in front of the city hall here in honor of the Spanish navigator after whom the city was named.
The park bears a monument for Urdaneta that was designed by some of the country’s National Artists who are among the signatories to the case filed before the Supreme Court questioning the process by which Malacañang made some of the appointments for this year’s awardees.#
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